Stories

Short things, told slowly.

Card stories you can swipe, and films shot while working. Korean voice, English subtitles. A fixed camera, afternoon light, no music.

넘겨 읽는 카드 이야기와, 일하면서 찍은 영상.
Ink drawing: a seated figure and one flowing line
Card stories

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Why one name

Set 01 · 6 cards
01 / 06
A cut grows out in six weeks.
머리는 여섯 주면 자라서 없어진다.
Why one nameSUHN
02 / 06
A tattoo stays for life.
타투는 평생 남는다.
Why one nameSUHN
03 / 06
Both are a line a hand leaves on a person.
둘 다, 손이 사람에게 남기는 선이다.
Why one nameSUHN
04 / 06
선 means line.
It sounds like sun.
선(線). 가위의 선, 바늘의 선, 붓의 선.
Why one nameSUHN
05 / 06
A hairdresser and a tattoo artist put both lines under one name.
미용사와 타투이스트가 두 선을 한 이름 아래 두었다.
Why one nameSUHN
06 / 06
One line grows out.
One line stays.
하나는 자라고, 하나는 남는다.
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The red dot

Set 02 · 5 cards
01 / 05
Every tattoo Changha draws ends with one red dot.
창하의 타투는 모두 붉은 점 하나로 끝난다.
The red dotSUHN
02 / 05
Ink is black. Hair is black. The dot is the only colour.
먹도 검고 머리도 검다. 색은 점 하나뿐.
The red dotSUHN
03 / 05
It is a seal. In Korea a seal is a signature.
그건 낙관이다. 한국에서 도장은 서명이다.
The red dotSUHN
04 / 05
So we cut a stone seal and press it on every tag, every card, the last second of every film.
그래서 돌도장을 파서 태그와 카드와 영상 끝에 찍는다.
The red dotSUHN
05 / 05
Where the dot is, we were.
점이 있는 곳에, 우리가 있었다.
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The practice room

Set 03 · 5 cards
01 / 05
One room. Two low tables.
방 하나, 낮은 상 둘.
Practice roomSUHN
02 / 05
On the left, a mannequin head. Wonjun cuts the same shape until it stops being a decision.
왼쪽엔 가발. 원준은 같은 모양을 결정이 아닐 때까지 자른다.
Practice roomSUHN
03 / 05
On the right, practice skin. Changha draws one line a hundred times.
오른쪽엔 고무판. 창하는 선 하나를 백 번 긋는다.
Practice roomSUHN
04 / 05
Same hour, every week. Camera on a tripod. Nobody talks much.
매주 같은 시간. 카메라는 삼각대 위. 말은 별로 없다.
Practice roomSUHN
05 / 05
The short is the trailer.
The full version is the lesson.
쇼츠는 예고편, 풀버전은 수업.
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Films

Filmed while working.

일하면서 찍은 영상. 준비 중.
Soon
Series · Two of us · Ep. 1

The day we decided

이 결정을 하는 날

Why a hairdresser and a tattoo artist would put their names under one. A café, two salons, one studio, and the first line.

Coming soon · 8 min

Soon
Film · One strand

From one strand to a shirt

한 올을 자르는 순간부터 티셔츠가 되기까지

A cut in Gwanggyo. One hair that fell. A scan, a screen, thirty shirts, thirty numbers.

Coming soon · 5 min

Series

What we keep filming.

Weekly

Practice room

One room, two tables. Wonjun on a mannequin head, Changha on practice skin. One technique per film.
연습실 — 가발과 고무판

Memory into ink

One client, one story, one design, one session. Five minutes each. Monthly, from Changha's Korea season.
기억이 잉크가 되기까지

Salon owner's diary

Two salons in Gwanggyo. One scene a day. Staff, numbers, mistakes. Every other week.
미용실 사장 일기

Korean vs Western

Why Korean perms are different. Why Korea hides tattoos. Apprenticeship, prices, service. Monthly.
한국과 서양
Korean Hands

A side project with its own name. We visit people in Korea who work with their hands and film them the way we film ourselves — one afternoon, one table, five questions. The seal carver who cuts our stamp. The carpenter. The woman who makes the paper we print on. Episode one is us.

First episodes · coming soon
Ep. 2 · Planned

The seal carver

Who cuts the one character we stamp on everything.
Ep. 3 · Planned

The comb maker

Bamboo, a knife, forty years.
Ep. 4 · Planned

The paper maker

Hanji, by hand, in winter water.
Journal

Short writing.